Topic: U.S. Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense industry trade agreements with Britain and Australia that have languished in the Senate for three years were approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.The committee's approval of the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties sends the pacts ...
Kerry decries unauthorized leak of war papers but asserts they reveal little that is newA senior Democratic senator is largely dismissing the significance of classified U.S. military documents released over the weekend that portrayed a range of problems in the Afghan ...
The decision to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison last year was "wrong and misguided", British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a letter to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee."I must emphasise, first, my concern and ...
Scottish ministers have declined a request to attend a U.S. Senate hearing about the circumstances surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber, a spokesman for the Scottish government said Thursday.The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations wrote a letter to the ...
The article focuses on the debate over the improvement of foreign assistance at the U.S. Senate. It is based on the visit of Senate Foreign Relations Committee minority staff members to embassies in 24 countries to examine how increased funding and ...
In a victory for President Barack Obama's efforts to engage Syria diplomatically, a key US Senate committee has approved the nomination of veteran diplomat Robert Ford to be ambassador to Damascus.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where the nomination encountered no ...
A pitched battle over climate change took off Wednesday in the US Senate, as leading Democratic lawmakers unveiled a bill unlikely to be completed before a key international conference in December. We can't afford not to act," he added, standing alongside ...
US President Barack Obama's embattled nominee to be ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, courted senators, including some of his chief critics, on Tuesday in a bid to secure his confirmation.Hill, a veteran of North Korea nuclear talks, has faced opposition ...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorses Susan Rice as UN ambassadorThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee is endorsing Susan Rice as the next ambassador to the United Nations.The committee approved her nomination by voice vote. The action paves way for her confirmation by ...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 to recommend nomination of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State to full Senate; the only " no" vote was Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana (by proxy). Copyright 2009 The New York Observer
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